Piaget

This week in class we took a lot of notes and had a lot of discussions about childhood development. We learned about physical development and cognitive development. When we were learning about how young children cannot judge number and volume I thought of my little cousin. She has recently started to learn conservation of number and volume since she is almost 7 now but I remember in past years that she didn't yet know this concept. During Christmas and Thanksgiving we always have snack foods on the table before dinner or lunch is served. We typically have cheese with crackers, sausage, pickles, and olives. My little cousin loves pickles and this particular year we had both pickle spears and baby dill pickles. She asked for a pickle and instinctively grabbed a baby dill since those are what I typically eat but she demanded the other kind because the size was bigger. I could have given her 100 baby dills and she still would have wanted a pickle spear because her mind told her that a pickle spear would give her more pickle than a 100 small ones. Now that she is 7, she can determine that a tall, skinny glass and a short, fat glass can have the same liquid even though it appears that the tall, skinny glass has more.

Agnosia

I loved learning about brain disorders this week. It was so interesting! My two favorites were Savant syndrome and Synesthesia. This made me wonder what other disorders are out there so I decided to research my own. I decided to research some information on Agnosia. Agnosia is a loss of knowledge. There are may diferent forms such as mirror agnosia where a person cannot tell if the object is real or a reflection. There is also color agnosia where a person cant recognize colors. Some of the causes include dementia, strokes, heredity, brain related injuries, or infections. some forms are genetic. Like all the other disorders, there is no medical cure, only ways to deal and cope with the disorder. Therapy is the most popular form of treatment and can sometimes reverse the effects of the disorder. Some of the symptoms are the inability to recognize people, colors, shapes, sounds, smells or objects. a patient has to go through many tests in order to be officially diagnosed with the disorder. If you want to hear more watch this VIDEO.

Ashalee :]

Left Brain vs. Right Brain

 This week I got really interested in the left brain vs. right brain debate. I took a lot of online quizzes and the one we took in class. All the quizzes that I took said I was slightly more left brained that right brained while only one said I was equally right brained and left brained. This quiz that I took said I was 58% left brained and continued to break down the percents and explain each category. Click HERE. It was really interesting in my opinion.

After taking this quiz I learned a lot about the way I think. It told me that I do things in a logical systematic way, like making lists and schedules. It told me also that when solving math problems I typically like to draw pictures to help me solve them. One part I think this quiz was wrong about though was my Reality- Based Analysis. It said that I adjust easily to changes in my environment when I believe that I really do not. I do not like changes is things. I like when things stay routine but it was correct in the sense that I am not very verbal. I like to use images and gestures when explaining or talking to someone.  Overall I thought this was one of the better quizzes out there and it does a lot of explaing which is interesting and helpful.

Take the quiz yourself and post your results! :)